Hi,
On 2017-12-03 16:47:58 -0500, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Now that the migration to pglister is well on its way, I think it's past
> time to start thinking about the lists that we *aren't* going to migrate
> (and, instead, will let die off when mj2 goes away).
>
> First off, let's discuss the lists which have not had even one email
> in the past year (excluding PUGs):
>
> pgsql-benchmarks | Discussion of PostgreSQL and benchmarks.
> pgsql-chat | General chit-chat.
> pgsql-cygwin | Former discussion of PostgreSQL under cygwin.
> pgsql-hackers-pitr | Former discussion related to the PITR feature.
> pgsql-hackers-win32 | Former discussion of issues relating to Win32
> pgsql-it-generale | Italian Developer Community General Discussions
> pgsql-nl-algemeen | Dutch PostgreSQL Community
> pgsql-patches | Obsolete list for posting patches to the PostgreSQL
> pgsql-ports | Former discussion about porting PostgreSQL
> pgsql-rrreviewers | Round Robin Review during commitfests
> pgsql-testers | For active testers of PostgreSQL Alphas and Betas
>
> Then there are a few other lists that are basically dead:
>
> pgsql-cluster-hackers | Discussion of replication/clustering features
> pgsql-php | Using PostgreSQL with PHP.
> pgsql-students | Google's Summer of Code students
>
> Barring serious objections/reasons as to why these lists should continue
> to exist, I'm planning to mark them as inactive tomorrow. The archives
> for them will continue to be active but the lists themselves will no
> longer function. Again, these lists have had zero traffic for the past
> year (or more), or very little traffic that has been either spam or,
> essentially, "ask on this other list."
>
> We can always bring a list back if there's a really good reason to, of
> course.
How about just redirecting some of them to more appropriate lists
instead?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
